10th October 2018 - Marillion With Friends From The Orchestra 2019 Tour

Dear All,

We are pleased to announce that we will return to the road in the UK and Europe next year.

The shows will feature the "In Praise of Folly" String Quartet plus Sam Morris on French Horn and Emma Halnan on Flute.

In October 2017, we played a sold out show at The Royal Albert Hall with this same ensemble, which fans and critics alike hailed as "one of the best concerts in Marillion’s history".

This concert has since been released on DVD, Blu-Ray, CD and Vinyl and topped the charts in 5 countries.

Marillion will be playing songs spanning their 14 album-career with Steve Hogarth, as 2019 celebrates 30 years of him joining the band.

h: “Has it really been 30 years?! Steve R tells me it’s his 40th anniversary so it’s a double celebration! It’s amazing to be in this position after all this time. We’ve added this wonderful six-piece to the band for this entiretour. They’re brilliant players, good friends, and the chemistry we have together has already spoken for itself. I thought we’d never beat that night at RAH... but there’s going to be two nights and two different RAH set liststhis time, so let’s see what we, and our legendary fans can do."

We are still finalising the European dates which we will announce later this year but the full UK dates are as follows:

We please request that you do NOT buy any tickets from secondary ticketing sites and especially not for the Royal Albert Hall concerts.

When we went on sale for the RAH last year, we stated that there would be additional tickets released a couple of months before the shows and this will be the case again.

Don't give your money to secondary ticket selling sites for any concerts. These tickets are not always guaranteed to be genuine.

If you are on Facebook, there is a lovely group called "The Marillion Ticket Repository" where fans can buy and sell their tickets at face value, so please always use that as your first port of call for any sold out gigs.

We look forward to see you all on tour next year - the shows are going to be very special.

Following on from last year’s revamped versions of Misplaced Childhood and Brave, Warner Music are giving Clutching At Straws theDeluxe treatment.

The 5 disc package will include new stereo and 5.1 mixes of the album by Andy Bradfield and Avril Mackintosh. We are really pleased with these and think the stereo mix is an improvement on the original but, in case you don’t agree with us, we have included the original 1987 mix for completeness on the Blu Ray.

We have also included the 19th December 1987 concert at the Edinburgh Playhouse in its entirety spanning 2 discs. Most of this show is previously unreleased and it has been expertly mixed by Mike Hunter.

The Blu Ray also includes a 60 minute interview style documentary with all 5 members of the band discussing the making of CAS and the subsequent split with Fish, with Mick Wall, the journalist who wrote the first official Marillion biography.

If you are a fan of CAS and want to immerse yourself in all things Clutching then this release is for you!

The release on November 23rd will also be available as a 5 disc deluxe vinyl box set.

Anyone who pre-orders before the release date will receive a hand signed print (signed by Ian, Mark, Pete and Steve R.) and will also be entered into a draw to win an original Clutching At Straws leather tour jacket.

This will be our first time in Portugal (exciting eh?) and of course we arehappy to return to our beloved Montreal after missing out in 2017. We are STILLworking on trying to make another Marillion Weekend in Chile happen and willhave an answer either way on that by the end of May.

We know that many of you are now familiar with the set up of a Marillion Weekendbut for any of you who are yet to attend one, here are the details in anutshell:

We play three consecutive nights at the same venue and each night we play anentirely different set list and show. Sometimes we have special guests,sometimes special show themes or concepts...

Fans from all over the world come to the concerts - especially so at the CentreParcs Port Zelande shows as these are residential shows and accommodation isincluded in your ticket price.

This gives you the freedom to party for 4 solid days and nights and gives youplenty of chance to make friends with other like-minded marillionaires andmarillion-airesses.

“We hold the weekends in great affection. From the band point of view -there’s nothing like them. An unbelievable amount of preparation goes intomaking these shows extraordinary. The audience is like one global family and theatmosphere is electric. Past weekends have become legendary in our minds.”

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Ticket prices and full information will be available in May and tickets for theWeekends will go on sale in June for The Netherlandsand July for the other shows - the Marillion Weekend website will be updatedwith information so keep an eye on it.

We hope to see as many of our worldwide family as possible - let's make thesethe best Weekends yet.

Special Edition of RAH Update. On Monday 16th we will be able to post out the Rest Of The World orders. We will hopefully also be able to post out the EU orders by the end of that week. We will then be able to start posting out the UK orders from Monday 22nd and, with the luck of all the gods, by the end of that week everyone in the world should have received them.As was outlined by the band on March 29th, we were seriously let down by the printers and book binders. They had told us it would take 20 working days to get our stock and our order was placed in good time. They severely underestimated how long it would take them to bind each of the Special Editions and have only been managing to send us small quantities at a time. To date we have received 700 which (thanks to our helpers) have been packed (but not yet shipped) and the remaining 2300 we are being told will be delivered on Monday 16th (1000) and Friday 20th (1300). We will be working solidly every day next week and over the following weekend to make sure that these are packed and posted as quickly as we can humanly do so. We are having another 1000 made by a different company and those will take at least another 30 days to get to us - when we have received them we will put them on sale for those of you who have been wanting to get a copy but missed out on the batch..Thank you for your understanding and patience and we are sorry that, through no faulty of our own, you have been let down. We hope that when you get it, that the delay would have been worth it as we think they look great.I have to add that when they arrive with us, not only do they need to be packed but we have had to hand insert the CD's and DVD's (wearing gloves to avoid fingermarks). So it is a BIG job to undertake but we are getting there. Thanks to Sheelagh, Alan and Lucy for helping our yesterday and thanks in advance to all the helpers coming in next week!

We have also been told that our worldwide fan-clubs have plans for screening-events, so please contact your local fan club for details (excluding UK).

We believe that this gig is up there with our best. It was a night most precious in our memories and our vision and sound team have brilliantly captured the vibration (which was pretty stellar on the night).